Bristol

Group run

Jack's not Station-ary - he likes to mauve it mauve it

43 GoodGymers made their way 3.0km to help the Emmaus Bristol and The Station in Bristol.

  • Bristol runner
  • Bristol runner
  • Christopher Lewis
  • David Schlaphorst
  • Bristol runner
  • Bristol runner
  • Lisa Elliott
  • Richard Breakspear
  • Darren
  • Alice Whale
  • Bristol runner
  • natalie wooller
  • Melanie Young
  • Shona Buchanan
  • Tom Hill
  • Bristol runner
  • Bristol runner
  • Dan Lombard
  • Andrew Gardner
  • Emma R
  • Alice Dalrymple
  • Jack Bradley
  • Andy T
  • Bristol runner
  • Shreena Parmar
  • Jenny Chak
  • Liam Scott
  • Kait Kirwan
  • VaguelyNorthernDarren
  • Anna Tattersall
  • Laura Spencer
  • Zdeni Cervena
  • Lauren Harris
  • Phill Stone
  • Chris Palmer
  • Paul Martin
  • Saskia Felstead
  • Olivia G
  • Lia Herbert
  • Sarah Taylor
  • Toby Gallagher
  • Raph
  • Phil Eaton
 
Tuesday, 16th of April 2019
 
Led by Shona Buchanan

It was brilliant to have Lauren and Phil join us for their first GoodGym Bristol run tonight! It was a big one, as Jack hit his 100th Good Deed - massive well done Jack! And what better way to celebrate it than with two of GG Bristol's favourite tasks, painting and Emmaus!

Emmaus-ing

Alice led the first group to meet Xanne at Emmaus. The group were set to work with various tasks. Some of them were on warehouse sorting which, as usual, may have ended up more of a warehouse-wide treasure hunt for the best hat (photo evidence shows Maria and Richard as key contestants). The rest of the group were outside taking apart unusable furniture to be recycled. They got to work with wood chopping, foam removing and more, making a great dent in the task.

A mauve-ing task

The rest of us headed to The Station, where two of our GoodGymers work (life outside GoodGym?!). We were met by our Taskforce member and the charity's Events Manager, Alice. She explained that the Creative Youth Network, based at The Station, are sprucing up their outdoor area for summer and the first way to do this was to repaint all of the picnic benches (you guessed it) mauve.

Through the Clo hole

While some had creative methods of avoiding getting paint on them (I'm looking at you, Shreena's tights over leggings), others went all in for the purple body-paint (Chris and Tom...). Despite this, the group still managed to get a large amount on the benches themselves and within 45 minutes they had painted the first coat on all of the benches left for us. Not forgetting that most of the group also managed a fitness blast in our sub-in, sub-out system. Thanks for having us Alice!

We jogged (/sprinted the Strava segment) the short route back and then got to watch Jack masterfully put on the Centurion outfit and indulge us with three different types of cake. What a baking comeback! We will be expecting a lot more from where that came from now...

Report written by Shona Buchanan


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Melanie Young
Melanie Young
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Tuesday April 16th, 2019 22:44

Lovely to be back :-)

Shona Buchanan
Shona Buchanan
Wednesday April 17th, 2019 07:09

It was really lovely to have you back Mel 😊

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Shona Buchanan
Led by Shona Buchanan

Continually running for that finishing slice of cake.

GoodGymers helping out
  • Back markers

    Make sure that no one is left behind

    • Alice Whale
    • Bristol runner
  • Photographers

    Take photos for the session report

    • Alice Whale
    • VaguelyNorthernDarren

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